Notes on Тexts of the Mongolian Оrnithomancy

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Notes on Тexts of the Mongolian Оrnithomancy

Original language description

Among multiple types of divination used by the Mongolian Buddhism both in the professional educated monastic level or by lay users, the divination based on phenomena associated with the sounds and occurrence of specific bird species (magpie, crow, lark, owl, cuckoo) belongs to means reflected as the way of divination typical of the Mongolian tradition although earlier Tibetan and Chinese bird divination texts are known. The interpretation of bird signs is remembered also by the folk oral tradition as a sort of synecdochic image of the whole divinatory knowledge. This paper will introduce Mongolian manuscripts of bird related divination texts found in collections in the Czech Republic and some field remarks concerning the bird divination and interpreting bird signs among the Oirats.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-07619S" target="_blank" >GA19-07619S: Mongolian ritual manuscripts in a Czech collection: their edition, history and Central Asian roots</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů